Word: jeane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After he married Poetess Jean Starr for the first time (she was also his third wife), wealthy Anthologist Louis Untermeyer, 64, wrote...
...legally bound. Onetime Judge Esther Antin, 50, the fourth Mrs. Untermeyer,* had asked the court to declare her his legal wife. Now living with Wife No. 5, Fiction Editor (Seventeen) Bryna Ivens, 40, Untermeyer took the position that he was still doubly-wed to No. 1 (and No. 3), Jean Starr, since his Mexican divorce from her didn't really count. (Presumably, marriage and divorce with Poetess Virginia Moore, 46, wife No. 2, was legal.) Untermeyer readily admitted that he had discussed the "present suit" with Miss Starr. "I told her [Jean] that the plaintiff [Esther] thought there were...
...relentlessly as Inspector Javert dogged Jean Valjean, the Justice Department has dogged the steps of the Aluminum Co. of America. When Alcoa was acquitted of monopoly charges in 1941, the trustbusters appealed their case. Four years later, an appeals court found that Alcoa had, indeed, been a monopoly before the war but it withheld judgment on Alcoa's postwar status until all Government-owned aluminum plants were disposed...
Gastronome M. Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, a great truffle lover, studied the subject deeply and decided that: "The truffle is not a positive aphrodisiac, but it may under certain circumstances render women more affectionate and men more amiable...
...truth is that Mrs. Geysel has become a lot too good to be true during her metamorphosis into The Legacy's heroine, Jean Paget. Jean is a wonderful girl, but she never existed outside a glossy-paper fiction magazine with a woman's angle. While she is in the Japanese bag, an Australian saves her from death. For years she thinks he has died in her place, but after the war, having inherited a sizable legacy, she hears he is alive. Jean goes out to Australia and gets her man. Any ordinary girl would have settled down...